Beautification urged as roads reshape countryside
The article argues highways have damaged scenic countrysides by prioritizing utility over beauty. It notes publishers of outdoor ads followed road builders, and predicts future focus on beautification. States like New Jersey Connecticut Massachusetts Michigan and Indiana are planting trees roses vines and evergreens along new or widened roads.
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Highway Commission
New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Michigan
Indiana
California
Washington Post
Proper City Planning Seen as Good Business
The American Architect notes that over 00 American cities now have city planning commissions and zoning. The growth of the city planning movement is driven by businesspeople and property owners who see parks streets and buildings as investments. Even remodeling a single house can raise an entire neighborhood's standard, with profitability tied to surroundings as well as building features.
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American Architect
Architectural Magazine
Benefit of Home Owning
The new home mirrors a boy’s first watch, giving status and identity. Ownership elevates the owner as a community actor, prompting civic interest and better citizenship. Thrift marks a home buyer, who becomes a recognized local figure and contributor. Washington Past.
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Washington
Advertising as a Citywide Publicity Force
The passage argues that public advertising remains valuable through chambers of commerce and trade bodies in towns and cities. When embedded in a sound businesslike plan, aggressive city promotion can yield astonishing results as a commodity reaching for world markets.
New Hampshire Planted 350000 Trees in Three Years
The report notes 350000 trees planted in New Hampshire over the last three years with last year’s offer boosting the total. Youth under sixteen could plant 250 trees and ages sixteen to twenty one could plant 500. If mature, the trees would form 400 acres and yield 15000000 board feet of white pine lumber in fifty years.
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New Hampshire
Grounds Express Individuality Through Planting Details
A reflection on landscaping as a means to show personality beyond house design. It argues that well arranged plants transform a home into a cultivated space, and asserts that a home feels complete only when its grounds are properly planted.
Stability Measure Ties to Resident Home Ownership
City officials promote the idea that the count of resident homeowners reflects local stability. The analysis suggests home ownership levels correlate with economic health and community continuity, guiding policy focus and investment decisions.
Mobbegs Cook Book Recipes For Soup Jellies And Bisques
A fragmented cookbook note lists recipes for Gorn Bisque Mock Bisque and Honey Jelly. It provides steps to prepare corn and flour soup with milk and eggs, a tomato tomato based mock bisque with bread crumbs and cloves, and a honey jelly using pectin and paraffin as a sealing method.
Nutty Natural History: Three-Toed Cheesefly Tale
Nutty natural history by Hugh Hutton describes the Three-toed Cheesefly living in the Mountains of Württemberg after gas mine closures. The creature uses a gas mask on its beak, feeds on almonds and walnuts for head and body, split navy beans for eyes and wings, and wax feet.
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Hugh Hutton
Limburger
Wurttemburg
Stuttgart
Boeing
Metropolitan Newspaper
What You Would Miss by Not Being a Woman
Reader letters debate the joys and burdens of womanhood from a columnist column. A widow recalls struggles of marriage motherhood and vitality while challenging idealized views. The piece ends with a Shakespearean trivia note about Hamlet.
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Tam
Ife
Dell Syndicate, Inc
The Road, Home, And The Joy Within
Poet Douglas Malloch reflects on chasing wealth and travel before discovering lasting joy in returning home. The speaker warns that waiting for pleasures can miss life’s real riches and love, realizing some times are too long to endure.
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Douglas Malloch
Superstitions and a Traveling Man’s Odd Rule
A letter recounts walking under a ladder and a traveling man’s claim that tossing a bat on a hotel bed brings bad luck. The writer notes shared beliefs and jokes about superstition, closing with the author’s signature and location.
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Fred Barton
Copsetaht
Why We Do What We Do by M E Thomson
An essay exploring temptation as the voice of repressed evil and the struggle between conscience and desire. It explains that neither extreme good nor evil avoids temptation, and yielding versus resisting shapes self respect and personal integrity. The piece cites reflections from a McClure Newspaper Syndicate collaboration and notes Cynical Sue in the margin.
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Tessas
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Mata Hari the Javanese Dancer and Double Agent
Mata Hari Marguerite Zelle a Javanese born dancer rose to fame in Paris and Europe then became a German secret asset. Her life intertwined with spies and high society before a 1917 execution at Vincennes revealed the era’s perilous wartime intrigues.
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Marguerite Gertrude Zelie
Mlle
Mata-Hari
Burma
Vincennes
Marguerite Zelle
Buddha
Paris
Trench
East
London
Madrig
Rome
Listen
Berlin
Vienna
Mets-Hari
Wilhelmstrasse
England
Holland
Spain
Portugal
Berjin
Tank Corps
Tthe
France
Cherbourg
Palace of
Measurement of Thoughts and Muscular Reactions
Dr. Edmond Jacobson of Chicago University reports that thinking involves the whole body not just the brain. After two years of experiments he claims thoughts reduce to nerve and muscle reactions that can be measured by electrical energy, requiring millions thinking in phase to light a lamp.
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Edmond Jacobson
Chicago University
Medical Lab Claims Synthetic Bee Sting Cure
Vienna researchers from Polyclinic hospital report duplicated bee venom chemistry and improved it promising a cure for rheumatism. The claim follows a controversial line about money and mysterious cures while a humorous line about a baldheaded man graces the page.
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Medical Laboratory
Vienna
Austria
Polyclinic Hospital
Kraschen Salts Fat Loss Claim Promises Quick Results
An October note from Montana claims a woman lost 19 pounds in 27 days using Kraschen Salts. The ad touts a morning half teaspoon dose in hot water and asserts elimination of waste, toned organs, and “Kruschen feeling” of health. It promises an 85 cent bottle from any druggist with money back if not satisfied.
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Montana
Neture
Euy
America
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